Friday, March 14, 2014

One more Olive Ridley saved !

Last week our two of our hosts, Shahid from Housekeeping and Assad
from In Villa Dining, noticed a turtle stuck in a pile of fishing net
near one of the jetties in our lagoon. They swiftly cut the turtle from the net
and called the marine biologist who collected some data. The turtle was not
hurt and seemed healthy so we released it back into the ocean.

The poor turtle was yet another Olive Ridley, measuring 56 cm curved
carapace length, who had got stuck in a tangle mess of more than 5 types of
discarded fishing net. Unfortunately, this happens quite often, to find out
why,click here...We work with an NGO calledOlive Ridley Project , and we have submitted the information on the turtle and the nets
directly to them.